PITTSBURGH (PA)
TRIB Live
August 14, 2018
By Debra Erdley
A Pennsylvania judge on Tuesday released a highly anticipated but heavily redacted grand jury report that purports to lift a veil of secrecy that protected more than 300 “predator priests” across six Pennsylvania dioceses for nearly 70 years.
The nearly 900-page report was edited to black out the names of 13 clergy members who filed legal objections, details decades of graphic allegations of sexual abuse and cover-ups in the Greensburg, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Erie, Allentown and Scranton dioceses.
The report names 301 “predator priests,” Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said. It includes 20 priests who worked in the Greensburg diocese and 99 from the Pittsburgh diocese, he said.
The grand jury received files on more than 400 priests but didn’t name names if the information was “too scanty” to make a reasonable determination, Shapiro said.
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